Prez wrote on Jan 25, 2012, 17:39:I thought this kind of thing was commonplace is the casual market. "Angry Beavers" and others are "Angry Birds" dopplegangers, and there are so many blatant rips of "Bejeweled" I just figure Popcap doesn't care. This seems par for the course in the Soccer-Mom Gamer market.

Angry Birds itself was a doppleganger. With the right amount of personality.

Actually, I remember playing a browser-based game very similar to it involving steel building frames and sticks of dynamite. Forget the name though...

“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.” - Mahatma Gandhi

I'm still playing Tiny Tower, it's the only single player mobile game I enjoy. Perfect for burning a few minutes while waiting in line or something especially when reading an article or checking email would require more time.

Prez wrote on Jan 25, 2012, 17:39:I thought this kind of thing was commonplace is the casual market. "Angry Beavers" and others are "Angry Birds" dopplegangers, and there are so many blatant rips of "Bejeweled" I just figure Popcap doesn't care. This seems par for the course in the Soccer-Mom Gamer market.

Angry Birds itself was a doppleganger. With the right amount of personality.

I thought this kind of thing was commonplace is the casual market. "Angry Beavers" and others are "Angry Birds" dopplegangers, and there are so many blatant rips of "Bejeweled" I just figure Popcap doesn't care. This seems par for the course in the Soccer-Mom Gamer market.

“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.” - Mahatma Gandhi

Red wrote on Jan 25, 2012, 09:44:Zynga's game may be a straight rip of Tiny Tower, but Tiny Tower was heavily inspired by the old PC game SimTower...

SimTower was more of a transportation game inside of a tower. The way you setup your occupants and how you built elevators decided if you were going to go bankrupt. The fact that their games are in a tower are about the only similarities.